Tiki Bar Update
Okay, just because I haven't been posting doesn't mean I've been sitting on my ass sucking down umbrella drinks and reading "Kon-Tiki"...wait...actually, I have!
Anyway, this has been a week of receiving, rather than giving. First off, the two Heyerdahl books that Gary Santoro sent me arrived. Thanks, man! I owe you one.
Secondly, I got these groovy bamboo bar stools, along with the Hawaiian Koa wood outlet covers I ordered. Thirdly, I received the 2 flyers I bought from my main pinball man in Cleveland, Bill Kurtz, and Fourthly, I got this awesome resin-mold Tiki lightswitch cover from Bone Productions, so the tiki bar is now about 95% complete.
The only thing I'm still waiting on is the mahogany wood letters I ordered for the sign I'm making for the bar entrance. I've already made the light box for the Robotron logo, and bought a bamboo mat to cut up to make the rest of the letters spelling out, "Balis' Hai'Deaway".
I also hung my modest mask collection on the bar wall, along with this excellent vintage travel poster I picked up at a local antique store. In addition, I bought a small fridge to keep my ice frozen and my limes cool, as well as a nice chrome retro ice-crusher and juicer.
Oh yeah, I also got the 2 bottles of wine from Bonny Doon that I stashed inside of my lab system shipping crate. They've taken their rightful place in my sadly undernourished wine cellar.
You can see all of my latest tiki-bar pics here.
I think I'm ready to par-tay!
Comments
Matt:
Bonnie Doon *so* does not belong in your wine cellar, unless you're planning to leave it next to the Tic Tac. If so, I've got a nice bottle of Manischewitz I could send you.
Seriously, no one's asking you to be Robert Parker, but I'm sure that in all your overseas travel, you've had wine that could without any difficulty wipe the floor with Bonnie Doon. Stock that.
Posted by: jkcohen | October 21, 2005 10:19 PM
Jonathan, I agree that some of BD's wines are crap (their rosè is excremental), but Joyce and I drank the Big House Red tonight, and even though it's the cheapest of the 4 I bought last week, it's very drinkable.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | October 21, 2005 11:43 PM
This is extremely embarrassing, but, in my mind, I conflated "Bonny Doon" and "Boone's Farm." Glad the red worked out.
Posted by: jkcohen | October 22, 2005 12:32 AM
I conflated them too after drinking the Big House Pink. I keep hearing that it's safe to like Rosè again, but that stuff is one step away from bum wine.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | October 22, 2005 8:45 AM
Woo hoo! Time for a road trip to cheesehead country!
Posted by: yong-mi | October 22, 2005 3:19 PM
Your foam cheddar hats await!
Posted by: MrBaliHai | October 22, 2005 3:23 PM
Looks as if I need to save some money for a flight to the US...
Posted by: The Cartoonist | October 22, 2005 4:22 PM
Sell your house, move here!
Posted by: MrBaliHai | October 22, 2005 7:05 PM
That's actually quite a good idea. :-)
Posted by: The Cartoonist | October 24, 2005 12:47 PM